Extreme right group members found guilty of terror-related crimes
With almost no reporting outside Germany a year long trial of the 'Freital Group' ended today, after lengthy legal arguments:
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Eight people have been found guilty of numerous crimes including deliberate attacks on refugee shelters in Germany. After a yearlong trial, the legal points hinged on the very nature of the group's structure and intent.
Link:http://www.dw.com/en/freital-group-members-found-guilty-of-terror-related-crimes/a-42852954?
A German right-wing extremist soldier's double life
Strange and I think his arrest was reported here. A German article that opens with:
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One year ago, a right-wing extremist German army officer was arrested on suspicion of terrorism, then it was discovered he was also leading a double life as a Syrian refugee. The case is anything but closed.In early February 2017, Franco A., a career soldier in the German army, the Bundeswehr, was apprehended by Austrian authorities as he attempted to retrieve a French pistol and ammunition that he had hidden in a bathroom at the Vienna airport. After checking his fingerprints in a database, authorities discovered that the man, born the son of an Italian father and a German mother in the Hesse region of Germany, was actually registered as a Syrian refugee and living in Bavaria. Despite the fact that he spoke hardly any Arabic and was supposed to be serving full-time at a Bundeswehr base in Alsace, nobody had realized he was leading a double life.
Link:http://www.dw.com/en/a-german-right-...ife/a-43540639
The Under-Discussed Recent History Of The Radical Right Terrorism In Germany
Back to the completed trial in July 2018 of XRW murderers, a wider commentary that concludes:
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These findings, though, do not lead to the conclusion that we experience a rigorous criminal prosecution against radical right offenders in Germany. On the contrary, when it comes to
neo-Nazi violence in general (such as arson attacks, assaults, or riots), law enforcement often works slowly and hesitantly....This observation reveals an ambiguity in dealing with radical right violence in Germany. A consistent and decisive handling of this challenge by the prosecuting authorities is far off.
The article is by a UK-based observer of the XRW, CARR; oddly this commentary is not on their website (link:https://www.radicalrightanalysis.com/) and is on a website not seen before.
Link:https://rantt.com/the-under-discusse...sm-in-germany/
Opinion: Neo-Nazis in Germany's police — put out the fire - and the Army SOF
Hardly believable: a fax was sent last summer from a Frankfurt police station's fax to the lawyer representing some of the victims in the long running (NSU) Neo-Nazi murder spree trial. So the first link is to a commentary:https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-neo-na...ire/a-46794541
Second is an August 2018 report of a Neo-Nazi cell inside the German Army SOF:https://www.dw.com/en/cases-of-far-r...ary/a-43352572
Ah, Berlin "we have a problem with our elite cops here"
Alerted by Twitter to these arrests, but nothing readily found on the BBC. Then AM today a series of tweets from @andrewflood and summarised as and complete with links to various articles, some in German:
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Truly shocking revelations from Germany this morning of a far-right cell mostly composed of cops connected to the recent murder of a politician which had used their access to police computers to draw up a death list with 25,000 targets on it & stole 10,000 bullets + machine gun.
Link:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1...505151489.html
(Added) Or a UK newspaper, which is a summary only:https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...P=share_btn_tw
Oddly the first Google hit I did went to this Trotskyite website, which appears to have the same news and some commentary.
Link:https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/201.../meck-j24.html